Professional Documents
Culture Documents
chicken” were determined not to let the sabotage spoil their gains, so they sang that “people united
would never be defeated” until it became “out of tune because decisiveness and hatred were inexorably
growing” and eventually there’s a “chicken shortage” thus the cadets “were all a bunch of chickens.”
(348-9)
⊗ Esteban Trueba has been secretly storing guns and weapons in his house
⊗ Upon his first return after 3 years and five months, Esteban Trueba was held hostage when the
peasants in Tres Marías took over the hacienda and drank all his precious wines & butchered all the
livestock and “for the first time he could remember, he felt defeated” (361).
⊗ Ironically it is Pedero Tercero who saves him, telling the peasants “it will be better if I take him with me
now, with his tails between his legs” (360).
⊗ Luisa Mora comes in and warns Alba that she could possibly die, and she told Esteban “victory will only
MinorbringCharacter/ Newand
you suffering traits introduced:
loneliness” (364). In 1973, military forces
- General Hurtado wanted a military coup deposed the legally
Facts…
- Esteban respects “democratic rights” & “freedom of the elected administration
press”(343) of President Salvador
- Blanca tells Alba, “whatever happened, one should not lower one’s Allende, Isabel's uncle,
standard of living” (350) in Chile.
- Miguel believes it is “impossible to defeat the right without a
violent revolution” (354).
4. “The story of the hens who joined forces
to confront a fox who came into the chicken
Major Symbols… coop every night to steal eggs and eat the
Chicken, Peasants Revolt in Tres Marías,
baby chicks” from Chapter Four “The Time of
Civil Services, Class Differences, Colors, the Spirits” is once again recalled in this
Shift of Power, Blanca and Pedro Tercero’s chapter, now put into action! An
unidentified third-person narrator first talk
Relationship, P.T.’s guitar, Last names about the “chicken shortage” faced and that
relative to a person’s power and rise to the cadets themselves are a bunch of
power, Corruption & Black Market, food “chickens” (349), then later Esteban is
captured and held as hostage. When Pedro
Tercero comes to pick him up, he says that
Esteban is leaving “with his tail between his
legs,” relevant to how the fox was described
as it is chased by the overly abused hens,
and Esteban realizes this is the first time he
feels defeated.
Look at this Passage!
“Trueba followed him with his head bowed. His 5. The narrator of this chapter switches between
eyes were red, and, for the first time he could Esteban and Alba. While Esteban narrates mostly
remember, he felt defeated. They crossed the about the politics of the time and how he was
kitchen and still the old man did not look up. They captured, Alba talks about her mother Blanca’s
went through the house and followed the path that relationship with Pedro Tercero, her own
led from the main building to the outside gate, relationship with Miguel and her love for Jaime.
accompanied by a group of unruly children who She also talks about the hardship of people at the
skipped along beside them and an entourage of time and the “chicken shortage” (349). This is
silent peasants who followed behind. Blanca and very important because both of them referred to
Alba were sitting with journalists and guardsmen, Pedro Garcia’s “story of the hens who joined forces
eating roast pig with their fingers and drinking to confront a fox” from Chapter Four “The Time of
mouthfuls of red wine straight from the bottle the Spirits” (141).
that was being passed from hand to hand.”
Narration by Esteban Trueba (361) So Who is the Narrator?
Blue
THE COLORS….
Overwhelmed, sorrowful, failure, disappointed,
The Title…is very
important because “The
unhappy, stricken, spiritual, holy, expectant,
Conspiracy” itself serves as a
hopeful, earthly and lofty (superior)
symbol to the series of unsuccessful
Yellow Contentment, Delight, excitement, happiness, revolts by the peasants to
enthusiasm, quiescence overthrow the higher class, due to
Gray Lost, adrift, lonely, frustration, melancholy either the lack of planning &
Red Resentful, violence, hate, remorse, anguish, reinforcements or the few
disgraced, admiration, devotion, affection individuals that does not want to
Multicolore Progress, growth & advancements, mixed emotions give up power that they suddenly
d had suddenly obtained.
Light-colors Lifeless, excluded, emptiness, purity,
enlightenment